The face of Boe had not been Captain Jack Harkness in a long time, a very long time. He reflected on how long it had been as he gazed down at planet earth from platform one. The sun was about to expand and the planet roasted. It had been many long years.
To his incredible delight and surprise as he went through the doors he saw the Doctor and Rose, he had no expected to see them again, he had thought that part of his life finished. The Doctor was beaming like the mad man that he was, at all of the aliens walking through the doors. Rose appeared overwhelmed, one of her earlier trips with the Doctor than, perhaps one of the very first.
Oh it had been so long ago when the three of them had travelled together, before he had become an immortal being, yet they had not yet met him. He had not yet danced with Rose, or fought alongside the Doctor. Rose had not been trapped in a parallel universe, the Doctor was only on his ninth regeneration. It was strange, the way time worked. He gazed at them fondly. Oh it was grand, to see them again after all these years, happy and together, the Doctor and Rose Tyler defenders of the earth.
He had come to see the death of his planet, his home, it was oddly fitting that he see two of his friends, who did not yet know of his existence.